Sabrina Ratté's video, Activated Memory, is featured on The Download this month.

Still from Activated Memory (2011)

On your tumblr, you quote Phillip K.
Dick's "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days
Later," wherein he presents his thoughts on "reality" from his
perspective of a science-fiction writer whose job is to create universes in his
novels and stories. Does your video work represent the reality you see? Are you
attempting to make the viewer see reality as you see it?

I believe that
Philip K. Dick is a master at questioning reality as we see it. When I first
read Ubik, I was fascinated by the
way Philip K. Dick would call in to question the basic structure of reality and
disturb the meaning that we give to our everyday life. Diving into his world
can cause a huge life crisis! It made me realize that we need to take certain
things for granted or have faith in a « reality » that we choose in
order to go on. (While being aware at the same time that this is only one
choice among an infinity of others.) Doubting that we live in 2011, or being
unsure if we are dead or alive can be very dangerous - and yet these questions
can lead to very interesting lands if well managed. Philip K. Dick is dangerous
in that sense. Are we in someone’s mind ? Are we dead ? Are the
objects around us really concrete or can they melt in another dimension?
Will this elevator go back in time if I step in it? The fact that he writes
these ideas into a science fiction context allowes him to go further into his
reflexions and gives him the opportunity to build these incredibly complex and
convincing ...